US NEWS
Lambda Legal to challenge transgender troops ban.
Lambda Legal, an LGBT rights group, is gearing up to sue the Trump administration over President Trump’s proposal to ban transgender people from serving in the military.
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Oakland A – Anti gay? – Go away.
Oakland Athletics outfielder Matt Joyce has been suspended for two games without pay after using an anti-gay slur during an exchange with a fan during Friday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels. Major League Baseball’s communications department announced Joyce’s suspension would begin on Saturday.
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Can you get rid of the gay gene?
AsapSCIENCE duo Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown explore the genetics of being gay in their latest myth-busting YouTube video. “Ultimately, a specific gay gene has not been found, but scientific evidence does suggest that human sexual orientation is strongly linked to genetics and tightly regulated at the molecular level,” the guys say.
POLICIES
Transgender military ban heading towards law.
Late last night the Los Angeles Blade‘s Karen Ocamb reported that Donald Trump‘s tweets calling for a ban on transgender people in the military have taken the first step toward becoming law.
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Prudential report: LGBT community is financially sound.
Our 2016/2017 LGBT Financial Experience research report explores a range of changes in the financial lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans since last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision mandating states must permit same-sex marriages and our groundbreaking 2012 survey.
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Texas rally for transgender and immigrant rights.
Dozens of activists supporting immigrants and queer people of color descended on the Texas Capitol Friday morning in an effort to disrupt an ongoing special session of the state legislature.
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Florida Attorney General opposes same-sex couples as parents.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum says he opposes same-sex couples as parents, but he would wait until a challenge to Florida’s ban on gay adoption makes its way to the state’s highest court before deciding whether to try to stop gay couples from being foster parents.